Social Business

Advice for Social Media Week: 5 More Social Media Tips from Rachel Gross

Continuing on yesterday’s post,  I’m sharing 5 more tips that Rachel Gross spoke about at at theISSMM executive event I moderated in February.  Rachel, who is the social media manager for Sanuk (a cool sandals company), provided the following tips: Make it dynamic....

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Advice for Social Media Week: 4 Social Media Tips from Rachel Gross

In honor of social media week I thought I’d share 9 tips that Rachel Gross shared with me at the last ISSMM executive event I moderated.  I’ll share them in two posts. Rachel, who is the social media manager for Sanuk...

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What’s wrong with enterprise video?

With Microsoft’s purchase of Skype today, my mind has turned to video and its future in an increasingly communication rich society. For many years, vendors and industry pundits have said” X (insert year here) will be the year for video”. In...

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Now is the time for collaboration because its simple, social and semantic

Collaboration isn’t a new concept. In fact the idea of people working together to achieve a common goal dates back to the beginning of humanity. What’s changed over time is our use of technology to facilitate collaboration. But technology doesn’t...

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My visit to Sprint’s new M2M Collaboration Center

Yesterday, I visited the grand opening of the Sprint M2M collaboration center in Burlingame, CA. The idea is to create an environment where you can both roll up your sleeves to build solutions as well as visit to learn about whats...

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JP Rangaswami from BT Design talks about change, control and collective knowledge at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference

This Tuesday I had the opportunity to attend the E2.0 conference in Boston as well as moderate a panel titled “Mobile platforms and Enteprise agility”. I’ll write a post on the blog platform later but I wanted to provide you...

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Perspectives on Cisco’s Quarterly Collaboration Business Review: Business is strong.

Last Thursday, Cisco held the first of its quarterly collaboration business reviews.  Barry O’Sullivan, SVP VTG and Carl Wiese, SVP Global Collaboration Sales, presented a brief overview of the unified communications and collaboration business to roughly 20 analysts via telepresence...

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Enterprise social software, unified comms and collaboration: one vendor to rule them all? Not yet.

Lately, numerous clients have asked me how enterprise social software should be integrated into their unified communications and collaboration deployment strategies. This is a good question. I will be addressing this question in an upcoming report called “The move to...

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